The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-12
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


GEORGIA.
The Leopold murder trial at Augusta ~.
suited Tuesday in acQuittal. ~
n H. Bass speaks of having an artesiau
well bored on his South Rome property. As.
The Salvation Army is having roljrh
and rocky time in all the towns in Georgia
except Atlanta.
The Ebony Marble Company, of Rome
has ordered engines, machinery etc. to i1ar
crease their work tenfold
H. G. Miller, of Rome shipped To I. IL. ~.
York last Saturday eighty-nine bEishz 4, ~
strawberries at $40 per bushel ~.
A diamond drill ordered by two 4 -.
marble companies, arrived yesterday $3.50
will probably be put to work on lllt nes+
jackson quarry. 's
A young son of Willis CARTER {ctl7,
was drowned while bathing NTH 49,,
short distance from the City Millr1t Co.
bus Monday. At the latest acoou 49, "A.
body had not been recovered. 7Tn
The carp pond of Dr. Marx WHl..., !,
near Crawford, broke last Sunklny *~s.a;no
and all OF his fine carp were uarEi ~ as
river 1t is thought the mishn6 e. - ~ . ong
by den of muskrats undernAfiifss 81, H.,
At Rome the third annual q, ~ 4 =, 90
the Board of Trade, whichApnc ~ IT, TO- VI
day, was a very successful ips ~. ~ w,
affair. Members of the h0Gf35ss ~ 'oa nc
Atlanta, Savannah Annis I'M r. n ~ 49, VI
Chattanooga and other cit sprs sent
Mrs. Sarah Rucker, ofs<lk.;'.s o,o 49, ho.
fingers caught in lowerii o gos sa ngf
and the catch penetrated1r - IS fost a,,o1l
her hand, holding it untf} t;e,e I.'o
discovered and she was m 4 TIC nain
brought on severe nerve ~ n 10, Ps an
Is much better and able VI 2sf a a., i'm '-''
Congressman Juds6& 81. - - 10.
bought for s., $50 A. wv nao
and lot in East ROM s,s,,,a,,. no I,iTI
q soon move with his 11fa ~ Po1na M,
Tedcastle still has aoQ<f "a +birdS Of he
lot ana will, when ,<,<,,s f,or, - Nv,
York, probably - sSc,,,o ,es;do,,oa
At Blakely C2<zT< - ~ w e''s''-'.o'
member of the We Waoe, JUNIOR
s Of i M. e. r. Wss41t7< III. = Sli know WI, urn
night last, after 4 Isl We iHu on SUNDAY
months. He hkd t4B Illlless OF several
since the middIS Sf ~ eonlined 10 MS room
bronchial affscj;6iS, 81. lan last WIN
three childref1z I'll - iedFeS d WIG anu
s,l Bru l1,,., e: The opposition
remain at H17s7115s pm savannah, old l not
came on a n1ISrf,.1cx put rev days She
she remait,{6 H<fs24S pension OF lacts t1au
. ton here W{}Sl1 FL tne steaInpoaG coIhDlna-
the fight - {3.fe peen forced 10 carry,
Mr.. Bu1f enenys country as dld
triad IA: &14h One savannah SrlSt men
pb4 ~ territory.
ba.4 county Independent Troop
- last Tuesday. They appeared
~ Nnks and many visitors were
iI--,s 49, - contention was spirited; and
80 - ~ uAtil twilight that the decision
= . rendPred. The first prize, which was
aa2ni1eent set of knives and forks, a
set&from Mrs. Barnard, of Walthour-
N<1es vas awarded to N. j. Norman. The
<o9n prize, handsome CAKE, was won by
Asrt w. j. way
sunday morning III. U. Clark (colored)
k$ Forsyth in buggy to visit Logtown, in
Epson county. On his return home in the
evsling just before the setting of the sun,
near STouds, the horse, starting down
long hlll began TO run, ana ON reaching a
turn in the road at the foot of the hill
Clark was thrown from the buggy against
rpck by the roadside, fracturing his skull,
from the effects of which he died in about
Ten minutes. Clark formerly figured con-
sidef bly, In the politics of Monroe county,
amt has been during the present year en-
gagged III teaching the colored school in For
tyth.
The Irwinton Appeal has cylinder sup
posed to be the one lost from the pistol with
which Joe Golden attempted to kill John Wig
gins near the Academy about the years 1858
or 1859. After Golden fired three shots, each
one missing its mark he dubbed the pistol
and struck Virgins on the head and the
force of the blow Jared the cylinder from
its position and it was lost. Virgins then
cut Golden to death. 1t was found Nav Z,
1857, and if it is the same cylinder. which is
supposed to be, on account of it being found
on the spot where the fight took place, and
twoc chambers being loaded and three empty.
and being badly eaten by rust, it has been
lost about twenty-eiglt or twenty-nine
years
A r,ao+;,,cr IF tho s+ooI,lo,do,.s oe tho An
g,lsta Ice Company was held Monday night.
The charter granted the company by the
Superior Court for a term of twenty years.
capital to be $50. 600, with the privilege of
increasing it 10 $50 900. as drawn by Mr.
w. K. Miller, was accepted. An election of
officers was then held and resulted as fol-
lows: President, Jesse Thompson; directors.
4 Jesse THOMPSON. George r. Lombard. C. A.
Robbie, d. Sancken, b. Lawrence and I. e.
lowell. Other essential officers will be
elected at a subsequent meeting. The COM
pany is now having an artesian well bored
on their premises on Mcintosh street The
work was commenced about a week ago and
they have reached a depth Of 100 feet.
A negro. called Caper Smith boarded the
down passenger train in Etlanfa Monday TO
visit his mother, who lives near Palmetto,
1t is said he was sick when he left Atlanta,
and that the railroad officials put him off
fine train AFT Eairhllr-O hecauSa ha did not